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On May 25, 1957, five men, including Quincy Jones, got together at the Brown Derby restaurant in L.A. The founded an organization called the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences. Less than two years later, the organization gave out its its first awards for excellence in music, called the Grammy Award. The Grammy Awards […] Sometimes, a few seconds are all you need to know just what album you’re listening to. Sgt. Pepper’s, for example. Or you know you’re listening to Exile on Main Street when you hear the opening licks of “Rocks Off” (which may be the best first five seconds of any album). And for me, the opening […] Bob Dylan was groundbreaking in many areas. But who’da thunk he’d foreshadow the day of the music video. Yet a filmed promo for his song “Subterranean homesick blues,” shot on May 8, 1965, on Dylan’s U.K. tour, not only was one of the first, it was ranked number 7 on Rolling Stone‘s 1993 list of […] Some records simply rank among the most highly influential in a person’s musical development and tastes. Chicago Transit Authority is one such album for me. And the fact it was released 40 years ago yesterday reinforces just how effin’ old I’m getting. One of the keys to formative albums is that they remain important to […] It borders on heresy, I know. But I’m not a huge Rolling Stones fan. Probably because of the band’s more blusey sound and roots, I never became wholly enthralled with it. Still, Sticky Fingers, released 38 years ago this week, was the second of four consecutive studio albums that are my favorites in the Stones […] |
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